A cartoon in a national magazine showed Moses with two stone tablets under his arm coming down from Mount Sinai. He said to the Israelites, "I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that I got Him down to ten. The bad news is that adultery is still in there."

The seventh commandment is very simple: "You shall not commit adultery." The word adultery means the sexual involvement of a married person with someone other than his or her spouse. In the original Hebrew it meant to add something to a substance which dilutes or cheapens it.

This is the commandment which gives Americans lots of trouble. Some recent studies suggest that 50 percent of married persons violate this commandment at one time or another.

Jesus gave top billing to the seventh commandment. When Jesus summariz…